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Former Liberal MP Rory Amon arriving at Supreme Court. (Steven Siewert\/SMH)Amon says he drove to the teen’s Sydney<\/a> apartment on July 22, 2017, believing the youth was 17-years-old.<\/p>\nToday, he told a NSW Supreme Court jury he had met the boy outside the unit complex before being led to the underground car park’s bathroom.<\/p>\n
He was hazy on the details about what happened next but said he likely would have asked the boy for a kiss.<\/p>\n
“My usual approach would be to ask someone if I could kiss them before I kissed them,” he said.<\/p>\n
His barrister, Matthew Johnston SC, repeated evidence that the now 22-year-old complainant gave earlier in the trial about what happened between the pair.<\/p>\n
The man said Amon had guided his hand to his genitals before they went on to have oral sex.<\/p>\n
“I don’t dispute that,” the former MP said today.<\/p>\n
However, Amon denied allegations that he visited the teen’s home a second time where the then-boy says further sexual acts took place.<\/p>\n
On this occasion, Amon allegedly brought a towel which he placed on the floor of the bathroom.<\/p>\n
The jury was taken through bank statements, text messages and toll records from the weekend of July 22, 2017, as the jury was shown Amon’s busy schedule.<\/p>\n
On the day he admitted meeting the teen, the former MP said he earlier refereed two rugby matches in Canberra.<\/p>\n
At the time of contacting the youth, Amon was working full-time for the federal MP for Mackellar, Jason Falinski.<\/p>\n
He would go on to serve two terms on the Northern Beaches Council before being elected as the Liberal MP for the state seat of Pittwater in 2023.<\/p>\n
In 2022, he reconnected with the alleged victim on Grindr, sending him a number of messages including a photograph of himself wearing volunteer firefighter attire.<\/p>\n
The former MP has pleaded not guilty to 10 charges including five counts of having sexual intercourse with a child and two counts of attempted sexual intercourse with a child.<\/p>\n
He also denies indecent assault charges.<\/p>\n
1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Liberal MP has testified he would have asked a teenage boy for a kiss before they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-513311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}